Against the social security reform, the PIT-CNT called a strike in which five unions joined.
The social security reform provoked the rejection of all the opposition, including the PIT-CNT, who called a strike this Tuesday morning when the articles of the project are being voted on in Deputies.
This Monday, the social security reform project is voted on in deputies, while tomorrow the article will be voted on. It is there where the unions decided to meet to raise their voices against the project that, they maintain, will harm the workers.
The first to communicate measures of force was the National Union of Workers and Transport Workers (Unott), which announced a 24-hour transport strike in a statement in which he expressed his “total rejection” of the initiative promoted by the government, and which in recent weeks incorporated new Modifications agreed with Cabildo Abierto and Partido Colorado.
For its part, the Central Council of the Uruguayan Banking Association (AEBU) also announced a 24-hour strike on Tuesday. AEBU assures that the reform “implies that two out of three workers will have Losses in your retirement or pensions” and that “the increase in the retirement age will have an impact on employment, both among young people and among older people”.
To these is added the Taxi Workers Union (SUATT) that decided a 24-hour strike on Tuesday the 25th and called on the workers to gather at noon at the headquarters on Clemente Cesar Street where they will move towards Parliament.
The Uruguayan Health Federation He also decided to join the 24-hour strike, to which was added the demands against violence against health workers and the request for better working conditions. The Association of Municipal Employees and Workers (ADEOM)For their part, they called for a strike and they will gather at the union headquarters at 2 in the afternoon to later move to the Legislative Palace. Finally, the UTU Officials Association (Afutu) called a strike starting this Monday.
Source: Ambito
